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3 May 1641: Protesting outside #Westminster Hall, John Lilburne, future Leveller tells an acquaintance that if justice is not done to the Earl of #Strafford 'they would pull the King out of Whitehall' #otd (BM) And they did, in the end... #overheardinLondon
3 May 1493: John Colet, future dean of @StPaulsLondon & humanist scholar enrolls #otd as a 'confrater' of the #English hospice #Rome (Royal Collection)
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609) c. 1600
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Met Museum)
2 May 1586: #Jesuit General Claudio Acquaviva gives Robert Southwell (executed 1595) & Henry Garnett (executed 1606) licence to go to #England #otd #highattritionrate
1530s England imagined from 1620s/30s Spain
Vicente Carducho (Museo Nacional del Prado)
Martyrdom of 3 Carthusians at London
Martyrdoms of Frs John Rochester & James Walworth
Martyrdom of Priors of London, Nottingham & Axholme
Imprisonment of 10 members of London Charterhouse
Aurora, goddess of dawn
1528, probably the "In Castel Durante" Painter, Italian (Met Museum), Maiolica, 25.6cm diameter.
Marigold [Calendula Arvensis], with a blue butterfly, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
29 Apr 1521: Martin Bucer theologian released from his #Dominican vows #otd becoming a secular priest. He later had a career in #Cambridge - where he was buried in 1551, before being exhumed & burnt under Mary I @DrStevenMFoster
Portrait of (Christophle le More?) by Jan Jansz Mostaert, c. 1525 - c. 1530.
Christophle le More was employed at the court of Emperor Charles V in Brussels as an archer bodyguard. The Maria insignia on the cap recalls a pilgrimage to Halle in Brabant (Rijksmuseum)